Friday
12:10 p.m.–12:55 p.m.
in Grand Ballroom C

import time_travel: A Primer on Timezones in Python

Description

Timezones are one of those things every programmer loves to hate. Most of us, at
least in the US, just try to ignore them and hope nobody notices. Then twice a
year, we fear with impending doom those 3 small words: Daylight Saving Time.
It doesn't have to be this way. Armed with some best practices and a little help
from supporting libraries, timezone-related bugs can be a thing of the past.
This talk explores standard library and 3rd party library timezone support, as
well as persistence and serialization techniques for timezone-aware datetimes.
By the end of the talk, the listener should feel confident in their ability to
correctly store, send, receive, and manipulate datetime objects in any timezone.